Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gypsy guitar player, Sabicas started playing a half-size guitar when he was 5. He was christened Augustin Castellón after his father. But a childhood passion for lima beans earned him the nickname Sabicas, which, in the dialect of Pamplona gypsies, means "the little one who likes beans." Famed for his unusual ability to play the guitar with one hand, Sabicas soon became the favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found...
...Vocation. In 1909 Klein, hearing the adventures of a museum associate, could no longer resist Africa. He returned only twice, most recently in 1927 to marry his childhood sweetheart and take her back to the jungle...
...rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
...look down on the whole Montgomery Ward incident (he raised his hands to show from what a height he had observed it), and that was just what was happening. A lot of people in this country were seeing things under their beds because they had not got over their childhood habits. Perhaps that was an allegory, the President added, but when the returns from the union election were in, people could stop looking under their beds...
...fight because of my memories-the laughter and play of my childhood, the ball games I was in, the better ones I watched, my mother telling me why my father and she came to America, my high-school graduation, the first time I saw a cow, the first year we could afford a vacation, the crib at Camp Surprise Lake after the crowded polluted Coney Island waters, hikes in the fall, weenie and marshmallow roasts, the first time I voted, my first date and the slap in the face I got instead of the kiss I attempted, the El going...